2-D shapes (age 7+)
Draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them
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Teaching Table
Set out your lesson
Make polygons and investigate a solid from different views.
Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.
Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.
Use scrap paper, optional modelling dough and blunt sticks, or a safe box. No sharp skewers. A frame is edges only, not a filled solid.
Use the supplied stage cards on screen or scrap paper; adult key stays separate.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them
Bounded objective: Make polygons and investigate a solid from different views. Actual 3-D construction/recognition conditional. Pyramid recognition not supplied and remains blocked.
- partial: Draw a triangle, rectangle, pentagon, or hexagon accurately
Polygon constructions with side-count checks; accuracy observed only on learner work.
- partial: Construct a cube or cuboid from modelling materials (e.g. straws and connectors)
Cube/cuboid frame construction conditional on materials; frame not solid faces.
- blocked: Recognise a 3-D shape (e.g. a pyramid) when it is rotated or seen from a different angle
No supplied pyramid view or physical pyramid task; rotation uses cube only.
- partial: If {{name}} is given a cube to look at, can they draw it on paper — and then make a cube-shaped model from modelling clay or construction materials?
Try offers new-drawing-and-conditional-manipulation for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. Actual 3-D construction/recognition conditional. Pyramid recognition not supplied and remains blocked.
Actual 3-D construction/recognition conditional. Pyramid recognition not supplied and remains blocked.
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Learning resources
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Check understanding
- Draw a triangle, rectangle, pentagon, or hexagon accurately
- Construct a cube or cuboid from modelling materials (e.g. straws and connectors)
- Recognise a 3-D shape (e.g. a pyramid) when it is rotated or seen from a different angle
“If your child is given a cube to look at, can they draw it on paper — and then make a cube-shaped model from modelling clay or construction materials?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Geometry
- Age range
- Ages 7–8
Standards